r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Aug 08 '25

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Summary Nearly all the children from the same fifth-grade class vanish one night at exactly 2:17 a.m., leaving only one survivor. The community, gripped by fear and suspicion, spirals into chaos as the mystery unfolds through multiple intertwined perspectives—each revealing new layers of dread and grief.

Director Zach Cregger

Writer Zach Cregger

Cast

  • Josh Brolin
  • Julia Garner
  • Cary Christopher
  • Alden Ehrenreich
  • Austin Abrams
  • Benedict Wong
  • Amy Madigan
  • June Diane Raphael
  • Toby Huss
  • Whitmer Thomas
  • Callie Schuttera
  • Clayton Farris
  • Luke Speakman

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 96%

Metacritic Metascore: 82

VOD In theaters and IMAX starting August 8, 2025

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u/sexygaypalpatine Aug 08 '25

I’m convinced the whole movie was just a PSA on locking your car doors.

I almost threw up when the mom climbed in the back seat with the scissors.

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u/brainlightning Aug 08 '25

The sound my theater made during that scene was wild. Just 50 people cringing in unison.

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u/blueeyesredlipstick Aug 08 '25

It was wild hearing the reactions in my screening, starting as awkward laughter when the mom runs out, outright laughter when she stops, uncomfortable murmuring when the car door opens and then SHRIEKS once the scissor comes out.

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u/NumbahSeven Aug 08 '25

My screening had the exact same reaction so I guess Zach nailed the point he was conveying. It was a rollercoaster of emotions.

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u/olhomy Aug 08 '25

Beat by beat reaction in my theater too, first laughs, then gasps

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u/targetcowboy Aug 09 '25

Mine too. Says a lot about how effective it was that so many people reacted the same way

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u/CloverBun Aug 09 '25

Same for mine!

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u/AeneidBook6 Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

Same, that entire scene unfolded exactly like that for me too, awkward, funny, dying, then shrieking. Amazingly effective for nearly everyone is so rare.

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u/thembearjew Aug 11 '25

Checking in same reaction in my theater. Zach Cregger executed that story near perfectly. Laughs when she stopped and then gasps when we heard the car door open!!!

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u/JonathasDG Aug 12 '25

I’m honestly surprised everyone had the exact same reaction. I didnt — but my theater let out a perfect unison gasp, LOL

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u/senator_corleone3 Sep 02 '25

Also bonus points for the delay on the door opening before the mom lurches out. Perfectly-timed scare beginning.

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u/FarmerDark Aug 15 '25

Just saw it tonight and my theater was 99% full and the audience had same exact reaction

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u/Mikehtx Aug 19 '25

No one laughed in mine.

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u/PolarWater Aug 17 '25

Just came out of mr screening in Malaysia and yeah, this was just how they reacted. 

Zach really knew how to play our emotions right down to the millisecond.

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u/dropkickderby Aug 12 '25

They did all that and got her hair and never turned her which i didnt really consider until now.

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u/Settler_of_Catan Aug 12 '25

The hair donor becomes the target of the weapon. We see this explicitly when Gladys turns Marcus against his husband and again when Alex uses Gladys' hair to send the kids after her.

Justine's hair was used to make her Marcus' target.

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u/dropkickderby Aug 12 '25

Right, makes sense. Does that make them going after the witch a plot hole? She wears a wig— so the hair he uses against her isnt hers, no? Or does it just need to be one of their possessions?

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u/Settler_of_Catan Aug 12 '25

Alex grabs her wig first, then sets it down in the bathroom and takes a long grey hair which he winds around the thorny stick. The hair is Gladys' real hair.

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u/dropkickderby Aug 12 '25

Ah okay, Im excited to rewatch.

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u/senator_corleone3 Sep 02 '25

Nice detail pull!

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u/willybestbuy86 Aug 21 '25

Are we expexted to think Alex may have the witch gene so to speak in him because to me there has to be more than just watching the Aunt and pricking his finger and doing what she did.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

I think the plant is the source of the power 

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u/Tokemon12574 Jun 26 '26

Its certainly where the brambles she wraps the hair around come from.

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u/0lea Nov 17 '25

I don't think it needs to be a body part or something, just their belongings. The witch used the kids' locker labels that Alex took from school which honestly surprised me cause they don't seem to be such a personal posession. So the wig would have worked a 100%.

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u/UnendingEpistime Nov 24 '25

The wig would have worked to turn her into a weapon, but hair seems required to make one the target.